Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-01
State 11epS.

Daniel Wall, a Burlington policeman,
has been fined for intoXication.
Henry ID. Gillett 20, was killed Satur-
day by piece of board thrown by cir
cular-saw in his mill at Hartford.
The new iron stairways and walks in
the State prison at Windsor, for which
$1,000 was appropriated by the last legis-
lature, are now being put in.
The Junction House at White River
Junction has been leased to y. :. Eddy
of that place and Thomas Lavender
formerly of the Weldon House at st.
Adams.
The Grand Isle Steamboat company
and the railroad will construct dock and
summer hotel at Providence island.
which they have Just purchased for Il
picnic ground.
Rowe Morse, farmer about 50 years
old. living at Rocky Hills, two miles from
Westminster hung himself Sunday night
He had lost good many sheep lately by
dogs, and this and family trouble are
supposed to be the causes.
y young man dressed in uniform. who
said that he was a recruiting officer of the
United states army, spent week at
Brandon getting recruits, and then left
abruptly, without paying his board bill.
The youths who had decided to enlist
feel down in the mouth.
The Central Vermont railroad has
closed contract with the Vermont Con-
struction company of st. Adams to put
up an iron bridge to replace the one
destroyed sat Hartford on February >.
1t is to be of five spans, $50 feet in length
of the riveted lattice system, and 475 tons
of iron will be used in it, construction.
Etfigie- of +. l.. Bates, State, attorney.
and George Robinson. deputy constable.
were found hanging to the eros, arm of
ii telegraph pole on the corner of Main
and North streets, Bennington, sunday
morning. Each figure bore IL placard con-
tanning allusions to the recent liquor pros
ccutions. The figures were removed iuS
before church time and conveyed to At
torney Bates Office.
The auditing department of the Ogdens-
burg and Lake Champlain division of the
Central Vermont railroad has been trans
ferred from Ogdensburg, y. y. to st.
Adams, under the charge of General
Auditor Lucas. President Smith of the
Central Vermont road has issued an order
in conformity with the interstate COM
merce law, stating that all passes issued
by the company expire April I, and after
that date none will be issued in cOntraven-
tiou of the provisions of the law The
order states that all passes permissible
under the provisions of the law may be
re-issued. All passenger and freight
contracts expire April T..
The Baldwin Manufacturing company,
in common with other Burlington manu-
facturers, reports business better this
spring than fer several years. The Bald
win company has recently increased its
producing capacity and is now turning
out 1000 refrigerators month. The COM
pany employs 100 men and is doubling
the product of its factory this season.
The firm is making heavy shipments to
the Pacific coast and has just shipped the
second one hundred lot of refrigerators
to Los Angeles, Cal. Recent heavy ship
ments have also been made this season
to New Orleans, Minneapolis. Chicago
and other southern and western cities.
The new temperance text books. fur
nished at the expense of the State to the
children of the public schools. are now
being distributed under the direction of
the secretary of state TO the various
towns. The estimates called for Is, 900
copies of the Pathfinder series including
Steele's "Hygienic Physiology" which
were supplied by \. ;. Barnes Il Co.
some l5,O00.copies of Brands Physiology,
published by Leach, Sewell Il Sanborn,
were also ordered by the State authorities.
These books will be ready for use in the
schools at the coming spring term. The
commissioners estimated that 20. 900 child
rem attend public schools, and that of this
number 10000 of the younger children
will depend upon oral instruction, leaving
80, 900 to be supplied with books.